Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Donald Roddy
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The Drock Story (Second Edition) Our Family Tree – Ancestors of Donald W.L. Roddy and Related Family Lines August 2005 29 pages Donald W. L. Roddy (From Research by: Daryl Y. [Hooper] Holmes and Donald W. L. Roddy) 1730 – Norwich, Connecticut: My great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Guy Drock, was probably born sometime between 1726 and 1742,…
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Descendants of Norwich slave, owner meet Norwich Bulletin Norwich, Connecticut 2012-03-29 Adam Benson Norwich, Conn.—When descendants of Norwich slave Guy Drock and the man who owned him met for the first time Thursday, they weren’t sure what would happen. Grant Hayter-Menzies’ fifth-generation great-grandfather, Capt. Benejah Bushnell, owned Drock for a decade in the mid-1700s in…
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“Slavery, Freedom and Reunion in a Colonial Connecticut Town” with Grant Hayter-Menzies, Daryl D’Angelo and Donald Roddy Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-10-03, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-10-04, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host In June 1759, Norwich, Connecticut businessman Benajah Bushnell sold Guy Drock, a slave of African ancestry, to Sarah Powers,…